General Questions

[Sarah]

This discussion is for short questions which require short answers. If your question requires a discussion and long, detailed answers or advice, make yourself a discussion in the Shout Out For Help folder.

I HAVE A QUESTION!

What does 'power-playing' mean when you're talking about role playing?

[Sarah]

Anyone know the answer?!

[cαssιe ♥]

Not very sure because my friend on Goodreads tried to explain it to me but she said something like:

It's kinda when you control someone else's character or something like that. Some groups make that rule because people power play and kill them off.

Not very sure so anyone want to correct me on this?

[Sarah]

I thought it might be that but I wasn't too sure.

[ali ᵏᵉᵉᵖ ʸᵒᵘʳ ᵐᵒᵘᵗʰ ˢʰᵘᵗ]

Power-playing is when you control someones elses character.
Ex: Sasha plunged a knife into his throat and he died imdediatly.
That would be power-playing because you controled the other person's charrie and made him die.

get it.

[Sarah]

Yeah. Thanks. :)

[ali ᵏᵉᵉᵖ ʸᵒᵘʳ ᵐᵒᵘᵗʰ ˢʰᵘᵗ]

NO PROB.

[Kayden]

Can anyone tell me how to change the cover picture of my book? The cover was redone a while back, and can't seem to be able to change it on this site.
Thanks.

[ali ᵏᵉᵉᵖ ʸᵒᵘʳ ᵐᵒᵘᵗʰ ˢʰᵘᵗ]

What happen to all of the mods??

[Leah]

what do most people want in a book?

[Sarah]

Are you writing a book?

[Leah]

erm, kinda, not a good one anyway.

[Sarah]

People want a story that's different. One that's unique, not a cliché, with a good plot that isn't boring. You hav to add a twist but keep it understandable. With good grammar and spelling as well. You have to make your idea original and stand out.

[Leah]

thanks!

[Sarah]

Welcome (: You know what, you should check out wattpad.com if you haven't got an account already.

[Leah]

ok!

[Leah]

thanks-again!

[Sarah]

Lol, that's fine :) I spend most of my time on there now - its better for getting your story out there. I'm SarahTheColdplayer if you need help on there.

[Leah]

thanks-again-again! I have just changed my idea of the fourth hunger games in here. I don't know why i have just told you that but i just want everyone to know it's going to be different. Anyway, whats up?

[Sarah]

Lol, okay :) Not much, you?

[Leah]

same

[Cheyenne, HoH & Proud]

Hello, I just joined. Are the poetry competitions usually weekly, or should I expect gaps in between?

[Cheyenne, HoH & Proud]

I noticed the "mods needed" thread, and also that new mods still haven't been chosen. If it would be acceptable, I'd love to put in an application. I'm on goodreads all the time, and I'd be happy to help keep things running around here. :) So I guess my question then would be: May I put in a last minute application for consideration? If not, no hard feelings. ^^

[Sarah]

Sure, I just haven't had time to pick yet, and I've been meaning to extend the deadline.

[Cheyenne, HoH & Proud]

All right that sounds good. So, I'll just assume that I should put it in the thread with the others? :)

[Sarah]

Yes :)

[Cheyenne, HoH & Proud]

All right, I put it in last night. Do you know how long you're extending the deadline for/when new mods will be picked? (Just so I know when I need to come and check it.)

[Sarah]

I've edited it on the mod applications thread, it's the 25th of June :) I'll message everyone anyone when I've chosen anyways.

[Cheyenne, HoH & Proud]

All right :) That's good because I don't get back from SMMC (it's a music camp) until the 22nd or 23rd or something like that..

[Sarah]

OKidokie ! :)

[Gemma]

I want to start a blog but nobody answers me. Why?

[Sarah]

What do you mean no one answers?

[Gemma]

I went to the blog file in the discussion board but nobody told me how to do it.

[Sarah]

How do I disguise a link in a word? For example, Go here to read my story. And the person has put the link into the word here, so that when you click on it you're taken to their story.e

Please help me O.O

[Cheyenne, HoH & Proud]

It's a pain. click on "some html is ok". It'll show you what I'm probably about to explain very poorly.

You know how you put something in italics with the < i > < / i >?? (I put spaces between characters so they wouldn't disappear.) Well, you kind of do the same thing with links except with the letter "a". In the < a > part, you have to put ((Again, remember to exclude the spaces. I'm JUST using them so that the characters don't disappear.)) < a h r e f = "and here you put your link"> then you put your text here, and you end it with this < / a > ((AGAIN, don't use the spaces. If I don't put spaces, the characters will disappear.))

[Sarah]

Okay thanks :) That's much more helpful than the some HTML is okay thingy. :)

[Cheyenne, HoH & Proud]

Oh, and also: you DO need a space between < a and h r e f = "

[Sarah]

Okay :)

[Dyuti]

When will we have the Monthly writing competition for July? Have you guys decided on a Topic?

[Sarah]

There isn't a theme for July writing of the month, and I'll put it up tomorrow. The themed competitions are weekly themed writing and weekly themed poetry comps.

[Cheyenne, HoH & Proud]

Wait, what's going on here? You're putting up a monthly competition, or you're going to set up the new weekly competition?

[Sarah]

Putting up the writing of the month. Tomorrow. For July. 1st July tomorrow.

[Cheyenne, HoH & Proud]

Okay. I guess I never noticed a monthly competition :) I haven't been here for terribly long though, so I suppose that's a good excuse ;p

[Sarah]

How do you put a picture in a comment? :)

[Cheyenne, HoH & Proud]

Oh man. That one's more of a pain than the links. One second.

[Cheyenne, HoH & Proud]

< img src="you put your link to the image in here" width="40" height="100" alt=" your description here description" / > Make sure you have the width and height set as what you want them to be. And no space between < and img, no space between the last three characters " / > either. Hopefully you can get it. :) And make sure you get all the spacing right or it won't come out right.

[Sarah]

Okay thank you :) I'll try it out hahah :)

[Gemma]

How can I make my polls known to everybody from the group?
And again how can I start my own blog in this group?

[Cheyenne, HoH & Proud]

Blog: Just go to the blogs section and click "new topic" you can title it whatever you want.

Polls: Since you aren't a mod, you can't broadcast it to everybody in a message. You can go to the "Announcements" thread and announce that you've made a poll and would like everyone to vote. I think more people would see it however, if you made your poll and then I broadcasted a message to the members for you with a link to it.

Hope I've helped. :)

[Gemma]

ok thanks cheyenne.